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Adapting One Hundred Years of Solitude into a film seems like an extremely difficult task for two main reasons

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In the timeless town of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion, and the inescapability of their past and destiny. This is Netflix’s most expensive Latin American project to date, with Colombian groups and indigenous communities building props and sets for the series.

At times, this fusion is so intense that separating the two seems impossible

First, this novel belongs to a specific literary movement, pioneered by South American writers, particularly Gabriel García Márquez, where the story is told through the blending of reality and fantasy. Naturally, translating these scenes to film runs the risk of making them seem absurd and not achieving a satisfactory cinematic form.

The second reason is the inherent complexity of the novel

However, watching the first episode of the One Hundred Years of Solitude series revealed that the creators managed to convey this magical and surreal feeling to the audience without making it seem ridiculous. One Hundred Years of Solitude is challenging to read due to its repeated use of identical names for different characters, as well as its non-linear narrative and frequent interruptions to the timeline.

These elements can be exhausting for the reader

Fortunately, such issues are absent in the series, which successfully transformed the non-linear narrative into a linear one, allowing it to establish a strong connection with the audience. There’s no need to waste time endlessly scrolling — here’s the full lineup of new movies and TV shows streaming on Netflix this month.